"REVOLTING" LIMITATIONS ON PUBLIC COMMENT AT ST. AUGUSTINE CITY COMMISSION

-----Original Message-----
From: easlavin
To: ilopez
Sent: Wed, Jul 22, 2015 11:29 am
Subject: NO principled reason, NO AG's opinion, NO legal research, NO policy advice or recommendations re: limiting public comment in City Commission meetings more than at SJC BCC or SAB City Commission

NO principled reason, NO AG's opinion, NO legal research, NO policy advice or recommendations re: limiting public comment in City Commission meetings more than at SJC BCC or SAB City Commission (e.g., denying public comment on every single agenda item)


Thanks, Isabelle, for your prompt response.
To summarize:
No legal memo.
No principled reason.
No policy advice.
No AG's opinion.
None.
Nunca.
Never.
As United States Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. wrote in The Path of the Law: " It is revolting to have no better reason for a rule of law than that so it was laid down in the time of Henry IV. It is still more revolting if the grounds upon which it was laid down have vanished long since, and the rule simply persists from blind imitation of the past.


-----Original Message-----
From: Isabelle Lopez
To: easlavin
Cc: Alison Ratkovic
Sent: Wed, Jul 22, 2015 11:06 am
Subject: RE: Request No. 2015-252: Any principled reason, AG's opinion, legal research, policy advice or recommendations or discussion re: limiting public comment in City Commission meetings more than at SJC BCC or SAB City Commission

Mr. Slavin,
I do not have a document directly responsive to your request; I believe discussion of the matter has been raised at a number of City Commission meetings over the years, and am copying the City Clerk to respond regarding clerical costs, if any, necessary to respond to your request.

From: easlavin@aol.com [mailto:easlavin@aol.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2015 11:00 AM
To: Isabelle Lopez; Denise May; John Regan; Lucy Fountain; Alison Ratkovic; Nancy Shaver; Roxanne Horvath; cityfreeman@yahoo.com; NancySikesKline@aol.com; Todd Neville
Subject: Request No. 2015-252: Any principled reason, AG's opinion, legal research, policy advice or recommendations or discussion re: limiting public comment in City Commission meetings more than at SJC BCC or SAB City Commission

Request No. 2015-252: Any principled reason, AG's opinion, legal research, policy advice or recommendations or discussion re: limiting public comment in City Commission meetings more than at SJC BCC or SAB City Commission (e.g., denying public comment on every single agenda item)

Please send. Thank you.